Industrial Design Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. I-9)

26 to 28 [Repealed, 1993, c. 15, s. 23]

Transitional Provisions

Marginal note:Definition of coming-into-force date

29 In sections 30 to 32, coming-into-force date means the day on which subsection 104(2) of the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2 comes into force.

29.1 [Repealed, 2014, c. 39, s. 112]

Marginal note:Prior applications — filing date

30 An application for the registration of a design whose filing date, determined under this Act as it read immediately before the coming-into-force date, is before the coming-into-force date, shall be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with

• (a) the provisions of this Act, as they read immediately before the coming-into-force date, other than sections 5, 13 and 20; and

• (b) sections 5, 13, 21 and 24.1.

Marginal note:Prior application — no filing date

31 An application for the registration of a design that is filed before the coming-into-force date and that does not, on that date, have a filing date, determined under this Act as it read immediately before the coming-into-force date, shall be deemed never to have been filed.

Marginal note:Registered designs

32 Any matter arising on or after the coming-into-force date, in respect of a design registered before that date or a design registered on or after that date on the basis of an application whose filing date, determined under this Act as it read immediately before the coming-into-force date, is before the coming-into-force date, shall be dealt with and disposed of in accordance with

• (a) the provisions of this Act, as they read immediately before the coming-into-force date, other than sections 3, 13 and 20; and

• (b) sections 3, 3.1, 13, 21 and 24.1.

Marginal note:Regulations

33 For greater certainty, a regulation made under section 25 applies to an application referred to in section 30 and to a design referred to in section 32, unless the regulation provides otherwise.